
The Prostate Health Program
A Guide to Preventing and Controlling Prostate Can
eBook | 1 November 2007
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What foods should you eat if you want to keep your prostate healthy? How does sexual activity affect the health of your prostate? What are ways you can prevent prostate cancer? What should African-American men know about prostate cancer? What are the best alternatives to radiation and surgery in treating prostate cancer? What are the symptoms of an unhealthy prostate?
These are some of the many important questions that are answered by Dr. Daniel W. Nixon, one of America's premier cancer research institute leaders, and Dr. Max Gomez, the charismatic health commentator whose reports are aired on NBC television stations nationwide. The authors not only provide indispensable guidance in cancer prevention but also offer a dynamic, new noninvasive treatment of prostate cancer. Packed with information, The Prostate Health Program explains in clear, simple language the link between obesity and prostate cancer, the difference between an enlarged prostate and a diseased one, the causes of frequent urination and pain, and the specific prostate problems pertaining to gay men.
Drs. Nixon and Gomez offer a user-friendly plan of diet, exercise, and behavioral change that men can easily incorporate into their lives. The authors explain why aggressive treatment, such as radiation and surgery, is often unnecessary, less effective, and more dangerous -- often leaving men incontinent and impotent -- than other treatments.
The cornerstones of this unique program are the Prostate Health Pyramid and the Transition Diet, both of which were created specifically for this book and are the ultimate tools in prostate cancer prevention, control, and treatment. First, the foods that protect the health of the prostate are identified; then, food changes are introduced slowly for more effective and long-lasting reform of eating habits. Best of all, quick and easy recipes created by chefs at the Culinary Institute of America provide a menu that is healthy and delicious.
With its combination of cutting-edge research and highly respected, world-renowned authors, The Prostate Health Program is the definitive defense against a deadly disease.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction by Max Gomez, Ph.D.
I. Preventing Prostate Problems and Diseases
1. An Overview
Liberating Yourself
The Nutrition Connection
The Exercise/Fitness/Lifestyle Connection
The Importance of Regular Checkups
Prostate Myths and Reality
2. The Healthy Prostate
Prostate Power
The Male Urogenital System
Do I Have a Problem?
Risk Factors of Prostate Cancer
3. The Prostate Checkup
Warning Signs
Basic Diagnostic Tests
When Should You See a Urologist?
II. The Prostate Health Pyramid and the Cancer Prevention Diet
4. The Prostate Health Pyramid and the Nutrition Connection
The Prostate Health Pyramid and the Basic Food Groups
Nutritional Elements of the Prostate Health Pyramid
5. Negative Nutrition
The Fats and Calcium Controversies
The Worst Foods for Your Prostate
The Irritants
Additives
Supplements: Good and Bad
6. The Transition Diet
A Gradual Approach
A Better Way
Getting Ready -- Suiting Up
The Six Food Settings
The Five Passageways
A Parting Word
7. Menus and Recipes: Prostate Health, the Delicious Way!
Choosing the Right Meals
III. Prostate Health and Fertility
8. The Healthy Prostate Fitness Regimen
The Link Between Exercise and Prostate Health
Can Exercise Prevent Prostate Cancer?
The Healthy Prostate Fitness Regimen
Aerobics: A Key to Prostate Health
Kegel Exercises (Pelvic Floor Exercises) for Men
Exercise After Prostate Surgery
9. Sex and the Prostate
The Prostate and Sexual Function
Impotence (Erectile Dysfunction)
Incontinence
Infertility
10. Prostatitis: A Little Tenderness Goes a Long Way
An Insufficiently Understood Disease
The Three Faces of Prostatitis
Which Kind Do I Have?
Treatment Strategies for Bacterial Prostatitis
Treatment Options for Chronic Nonbacterial Prostatitis (CNP)
Diet and Lifestyle Changes
Gay Men and Prostatitis
Living with Prostatitis
11. When Size Matters: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
What is BPH?
Who Gets BPH?
Symptoms of BPH
When to See a Doctor
Treatment Options
Putting It All Together
12. Prostatodynia (Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome)
Symptoms of Prostatodynia
Diagnosis of Prostatodynia
What Causes Prostatodynia?
Drawing a New Diagnostic Map of Prostatitis-Type Disorders
Treatment Options for Prostatodynia
Solving the Enigma of Prostatodynia
IV. Prostate Cancer
13. Guarding Against Prostate Cancer
The Institute for Cancer Prevention on Prostate Cancer
The Institute for Cancer Prevention's Prostate Cancer Prevention Program
The PSA Test: Cutting Through the Controversy
Grading Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer Q&A: Things You Need to Know
In the Wake of Prostate Cancer: Coping and Getting On with Your Life
14. Treating Prostate Cancer
A Treatment Dilemma
Determining the Right Treatment for Each Patient
Expectant Therapy
Radiation Therapy
Hormone Therapy
Chemotherapy
On the Horizon: The Prostate Cancer Vaccine
Biological Therapy
Gene Therapy: The Future of Prostate Cancer Treatment?
Surgery
Cryotherapy
Treating the Complications of Prostate Cancer
Relieving and Treating Pain
The Institute for Cancer Prevention's Prostate Cancer Symptoms and Treatment Charts
15. African Americans and Prostate Cancer
Stopping the Crisis
Race and Age
A More Aggressive Incidence of the Disease
How Much Does Race Have to Do with It?
Possible Causatives and Risk Factors Other than Race
The Institute for Cancer Prevention's Ten-Step Plan to Prevent and Combat Prostate Cancer in African Americans
Hispanic Men and Prostate Cancer: No Easy Answers
V. Alternatives
16. Alternative Treatments
Outside the Realm
What Is Conventional (Allopathic) Medicine?
What Is Alternative Medicine?
Types of Alternative Therapies
The Placebo Effect
Homeopathy: Something for Nothing?
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Chiropractic Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine
Ayurveda: The Oldest Medicine?
Back to Mother Nature: Herbs and the Prostate
An Alternative Diet Therapy for the Prostate
Physical Therapy (Bodywork)
A Final Word on Alternative Therapies
About the Institute for Cancer Prevention
Index
About the Authors
ISBN: 9781439100387
ISBN-10: 1439100381
Published: 1st November 2007
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Free Press